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The protest started in Trafalgar Square around lunch time, where people chanted Mr Floyd’s name and knelt on the floor en masse, before heading to the US embassy in Battersea.One demonstrator said the protests were ‘very important because it is sending a clear message that we have had enough racial injustice in our country’.supports HTML5 videoIsabelle Orsini, 20, is originally from New York, but now lives in Kensington.
A reverend at a church on Trafalgar Square, where the protest started, said she was ‘very sympathetic’ towards those marching but expressed some concern about how close they were.supports HTML5 videoPolice revealed that 23 people had been arrested as a result of the BLM protests in London ‘It’s an issue that requires passion but at the same time there’s a huge amount of risk in what they’re doing.’
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